Daily Meditation: Sunday, August 21, 2011
Ordeals - reveal people’s true nature
To know people – to know whether they are loyal, true, strong, wise and generous – you only have to observe how they go through ordeals. As long as everything is going well for them and nothing is troubling them or making them suffer, it is impossible to know what they are truly worth. If this were not the case, why do you think initiation begins with ordeals? You will have heard of the terrible ordeals to which initiates in ancient times subjected those who wanted to become their disciples. Obviously, in the Universal White Brotherhood, you will not be subjected to such ordeals, and anyway there is no need. But it is very difficult to win an initiate over, and for good reason: they will not accept you into their heart, soul and spirit before checking you out a little, for they cannot run the risk of entrusting their riches to a ship that is likely to sink in the first storm. But if they see the vessel is sturdy, that in spite of the storms the disciple seems stable, resilient and patient – then, yes, the initiate gives them everything they possess: their trust, their love, their respect and their treasures.
Omraam Mikhael AivanhovBuy
- ‘Those who eat…
- Actions
- Adults
- Ageing
- Alternation
- Archangel Micha…
- Art
- Artist
- Aura
- Body and soul
- Body, the
- Buddha
- Changes
- Changing your l…
- Children
- Clear vision
- Collectivity, t…
- Continence
- Creators
- Creatures, livi…
- Discernment
- Disciples
- Discouragement
- Education
- Effort
- Elohim, the
- Esteem of heave…
- Evil
- Evolution, huma…
- Face
- Faculties and t…
- Faculties, spir…
- Failings
- Feeling and ges…
- Food
- Freedom
- Good and evil
- Greeting
- Hands, shaking
- Harmony, univer…
- Holiness
- Holy Spirit
- Horse
- Human beings
- Idea
- Infinitely grea…
- Inner states
- Knowledge, init…
- Laughing
- Law of accelera…
- Laws, divine
- Life, divine
- Love, self-serv…
- Lower nature, t…
- Making an effor…
- Masters, spirit…
- Medicine
- Men and women
- Meteorology
- Minute at a tim…
- Moral rules
- Music
- Nature
- Nutrition
- Objects
- Obstacles
- Old age
- One and zero
- Ordeals
- Path to salvati…
- Philosopher’s s…
- Planes, the phy…
- Pleasure
- Power
- Prayers
- Principles, mas…
- Punishments of …
- Radio programme…
- Right of sanctu…
- Science, offici…
- Scientific rese…
- Sensual love
- Serpent to dove
- Sexual experien…
- Smile, a
- Spirits, famili…
- Spiritual Maste…
- Sympathizing
- Temperament
- Thought
- Thoughts
- Time wasted
- Tomorrow
- Understand
- Visions and dre…
- Vocation
- Weaknesses and …
- Wolf
- ‘Be perfect as …
- ‘Our Father in …